Last week I posted that I was finally at the point for hiring The Real Estate Tomato to design and set up a custom blog for me. 

Since then I have been having trouble with finding (went through more than 2200 images) the right image for the header with istockphoto, I knew what I wanted...I just could not find it.  Finally we got a break in the clouds (so to speak!) and the sun came out enough on Thursday for me to take about 150 photos of one of my favorite views in Seattle.  It's from Queen Anne's Kerry Park and has killer views of Downtown Seattle, the Space Needle, Elliott Bay, the Sound, Alki Point and when the clouds have cleared enough....Mt Rainier!  Yes the archetypal Seattle view.

This is the view that many people are familiar with because it is seen often in movies, on postcards and on the news.  Just recently while at Kerry Park, I saw one of our local stations doing a broadcast from here.   

A few months after I moved to Seattle, I went driving around Queen Anne just looking for the view I had seen in postcards, movies and the news.  When I found it I was so excited, it was just breathtaking... 

I have never, never forgotten my first live view!  So more than any other view of Seattle, this means Seattle to me.

So here is the winning photo that I am using (it is cropped to fit my header format) for my new custom blog.....

So what do you think....it's beautiful...just breathtaking!